Comment 11 for bug 1698118

As promised here are the results from the amd64 live DVD (the architecture identifies as 'i386' but this is the default desktop install media identifying as 'amd64')

16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus), 4.8.0-36-generic, i386, RAM=16387048

Copying /lib to 1: 14.20
Copying 1 to 2: 4.24
Copying 2 to 3: 4.28
Copying 3 to 4: 4.15
Copying 4 to 5: 4.35
Copying 5 to 6: 4.24
Copying 6 to 7: 4.31
Copying 7 to 8: 4.25
Copying 8 to 9: 4.12
Copying 9 to 10: 4.16
Copying 10 to 11: 3.92
Copying 11 to 12: 4.38
Copying 12 to 13: 4.17
Copying 13 to 14: 4.35
Copying 14 to 15: 4.26
Copying 15 to 16: 4.57
Copying 16 to 17: 5.64
Copying 17 to 18: 5.78
Copying 18 to 19: 5.87
Copying 19 to 20: 5.02
Copying 20 to 21: 4.30
Copying 21 to 22: 4.11

Again showing no sign of the issue, and even without the issue up to twice as fast in 64 bit compared to 32 bit.